Wilkins also accompanied Dom Joly in Excellent Adventures, again for Sky TV and broadcast on the OLN network in Canada.
He attended Stowe School in Buckinghamshire and then studied computing and business at the West London Institute of Higher Education (now Brunel University).
The artworks are conceived to work on a number of levels –the viewers initial impression is of a red image, but upon closer inspection the documentary detail of the still life is revealed.
James Ehnes, Hey, Rosetta!, Kid Koala and Sam Roberts were all exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
Loop was a featured exhibition of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, 2011 at the Textile Museum of Canada.
[4] Kinetic Portraits of 12 Prominent Newfoundlanders was on exhibit at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Combining explorations of portraiture, technology and interpretation, these portraits feature representations of twelve celebrated Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier, Austin Clarke, Douglas Coupland, Wayne Johnston, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Alistair MacLeod, Yann Martel, Anne Michaels, David Adams Richards, Jane Urquhart and M.G.
Off-camera, Wilkins has engaged his sitters in a series of personal questions, exploring their hopes, fears and ideals.
The resulting likenesses embody the process of "sitting" itself, pushing the traditional idea of portraiture by adding the dimension of time.
[9][10] In 2013, Peter Wilkins and Will Gill were officially selected by curator Massimiliano Gioni to exhibit as a collateral project with the 55th Venice Biennale.
Organised by the Terra Nova Art Foundation, the exhibition was titled About Turn: Newfoundland in Venice, Will Gill & Peter Wilkins.
During the first documentary the pair explored Miami drinking styles, then met up with some hillbillies in the Appalachians tasting moonshine, and visited a gay cowboy bar in Atlanta before taking on the Christian right in Alabama's dry counties.
Wilkins plans to artistically capture and represent the enormous hydro generating power of the Churchill Falls Hydro Plant, building on his existing techniques, from creating abstract patterns with photographic realism and using time based works focusing on the movement, relationship and evolvement of colour and form.